On June 2, I decided to sit Shiva*. I did it out of a profound sense of grief and inarticulateness, that one human being – anyhuman beings – could have lived a life that would allow them to believe that it is acceptable to kneel on the neck of another human being until that second […]
Innovation, mess, or magic? What Tim Harford’s Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives offers of relevance to innovators and thought leaders.
How best can you, a senior-level corporate executive, find your corporate thought leaders and work with them, particularly if they don’t slip easily into the mainstream?
If you are a thought leader, chances are life has not been easy or comfortable; more likely awkward and frustrating. Nonetheless, we need you.
If you want to change what people do, you need to change what they think. If you want to change their thinking, you have to change how they feel…and underlying feelings is emotions… […]
It was colleagues at UK business school Ashridge who helped me see how powerful an experiential metaphor for leadership dance can be. Here’s why.
Sometimes we are prompted to do unusual things that our logical mind tells us are dumb, even impracticable. Sometimes those things turn out to move us in directions we would not have allowed ourselves to go, that serve us in ways we could not have imagined. Here’s how one of those worked out for me.
Are you charged with bringing more innovation into your organization? Looking for a new approach, an edge that will keep you in the forefront? Then find your highly sensitive people, because they will notice things others don’t; and think differently.
“Leaders listen for the future of their organization” – and I would add, of their world. I came across this quote in a book I’m reading, called “The Three Laws of Performance”, by Zaffron and Logan. The quote resonated with me, because when I was in my 40s and trying to decide what I wanted […]